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Two years after the discovery of a papyrus that includes the phrase “Jesus said to them, ‘my wife,’” researchers have announced that the fragment is not a forgery and was likely written in the Middle Ages, though it does not necessarily prove Jesus had a wife. What do you think?

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it would have been unusual for a Jewish man around 30 years old to not have a wife. This authentic appearing document shows no evidence of having been written with even a century of when Jesus lived.

It most likely shows that there was a group that believed Jesus had a wife, but it doesn’t shed much light on whether there was any truth to the underlying alleged fact. I haven’t read anyone suggesting that it offers any proof of anything other than the existence of a group’s belief.

It will be interesting to read more analysis on the text as it becomes available. But, it doesn’t have much significance to my life one way or another.